Tisserand periapsis bound

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For bound planet-crossing Kepler orbits, , with the planet radius taken as one. At fixed , is maximized by and . For this gives . This form remains regular at . It is an invariant-based accessibility bound, not a guarantee that a scattering history attains it; for it gives no positive universal pericentre floor.

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